St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-17
MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY.
Caster is Over, But 1t is Late for Winter
and Early for Summer
Gayety.
The Week Prolific of Balls That Spoke
of the Release From Lenten
Prisons
Flowers Beginning to Bloom in Many
Lapels-- Various Other Signs
OF Spring.
Run of a City's Gayety- Society Do
tpgs and Sayings--Personal
Gossip Generally.

Monday evening opened the Easter holt
lays in way to make the heart of the be-
lever in gayety rejoice. At MalcOlm's
nall a brilliant fancy dress juvenile party
danced. The young gentlemen and ladies
III the Irish Catholic churches. freed from
he restraints of Lent, danced merrily at
Window hall; the Knights of Pythas hall
and Curtiss' hall were the scenes OF rev.
elrv. Later III the week five or six
other social organizations gave dancing par
lies. and those clubs which did not dance
last week have fixed dates for the forth
coming event.
EThe Easter week has also been busy
time for Cupid. The little fellow has rested
long. and his rest had begun to be i'm
patience when the Easter lilies doomed
and told him that it was time to light
Hymen's torch. TO the glow OF that bright
beacon came several people well known in
society. and at the altar of connubial bliss
they plighted holy vows. Thursday MORN
ing's GLOBE chronicled three weddings,
one of which was a very elegant affair.
There are rumors of several more matrl-
monial happenings for the near future, but
the rumorS are at present something like
the deals of certain real estate men-''some-
thing brewing, but not far enough advanced
yet to report"
The flowers that bloom in the spring.
have already begun to appear on the lapels
of certain fashionable coats: most of them,
it is true, are roses grown where wind and
weather are deied. but yesterday gentle
man was seen with bunch of anemonies-
sure harbingerS of the vernal season. 1t
recalls past spring times and glorious
trampS through the oak woods, where the
wind flowers doomed amid green moses
and bore no leaves. Doubtless with the
return of these first spring days many good
people of Minneapolis will bethink them of
the old home in New England or New
York, where but little warmth and sun
shine was necessary to coax the fragrant
beauty of the trailing arbutus to appear.
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1t was not my intention. however. to re-
vive memories that may be painful as well
as precious. | heard a conversation be-
tween several young gentlemen the other
day in which certain Yankee customs that
return with the spring were discussed.
What lively interest these young bach
elors take in the doings of the old home
stead. The budding trees recalled happy
memories for one after another con- D
uted some "reminiscences of his b0yhood, and
with each tale their interest increased until
the entire company seemed transported
back to a land of rocky hillsideS where
sugar trees grow. where the houses have
big tireplaces in them and where the girls
are all rosy-cheeked and lovely.
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Why is it that these young men remem-
Der only the pleasures of the old home? 1t
is seldom that the diScomfortS of the early
life, wherever or however spent, recur to
the mind, and when they'd they are passed
with jest. But the joys of boyhood and
girlhood are perennial, and they return to
nan and woman when their time and place
are far removed, the boardingshouse is for
gotten in contemplation of home pictures;
bachelor quarters are lost sight of i'll the
scenes that intervene between eye and book,
and the life of many homeSick man and
woman. whom fate has severed from the
family hearthStone. has been saved by a
merciful Intervention of imagination that
makes the weary wanderer oblivious of his
surroundings, and takes him to those he
loves best.
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No calamity that has befallen the
home nest since his departure ever. mars
these pictures of happiness. The little sis
ter may be wearing long dresses now. and
her thoughts be occupied mostly by thoughts
of some other girls brother; the barefoot
boy may have exchanged fishing and swim
ming eScapadeS for stern business pursuits,
but the kindly Imagination shows the hap
pier group:-parents no older than dozen
years ago, it may be, Short-dreSSed girl and
barefoot boy, the same dog, the same cat,
the same furniture, the same cOntentment-
everything is as the last impression was,
aud the mind will retain the picture always.